Acceleration of GATE SPECT simulations

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1476-1485

  De Beenhouwer, Jan ^a   Staelens, Steven ^a   Vandenberghe, Stefaan ^a   Lemahieu, Ignace ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Forced detection; GATE; Monte Carlo; SPECT

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FORCED DETECTION; GATE; GEANT4 APPLICATION FOR TOMOGRAPHIC EMISSIONS; GEOMETRY AND TRACKING; MULTIPLE PROJECTIONS; REALISTIC SIMULATION; SPECT; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ENERGY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEANT4 APPLICATION FOR TOMOGRAPHIC EMISSION; GEOMETRY; GEOMETRY AND TRACKING 4 APPLICATION TOOLKIT; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARD;

EID: 41449109579     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2885370     Document Type: Article

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